Wisconsin Business News

Lake Interchange redesign offers warmer welcome to 3rd Ward

Pedestrians and drivers passing underneath the Lake Interchange and into the 3rd Ward are greeted with gray concrete and, in some places, graffiti.

But when the interchange is rebuilt, the highway ramps will include more welcoming logos, images and green space announcing the 3rd Ward. A tunnel underneath a freeway ramp at Jefferson Street will include an image similar to the signs that span the local street bridges leading into the neighborhood south of MilwaukeeÃ¢;Â€Â™s downtown. The retaining wallsÃ¢;Â€Â¦;